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, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter … pictures to identify race, ethnicity, and gender. We show that one can use LinkedIn data to obtain reasonably reliable measures … of workforce demographic composition by race, ethnicity, and gender, based on validation exercises comparing estimates …
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different gender, race, or ethnic groups and how they evolve as buyers obtain more information about seller quality. We consider … have a choice about how strongly to signal gender. We develop a new approach to identifying statistical discrimination … using doctors' choices about signaling their gender. We find evidence of statistical discrimination against female doctors …
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effects could differ by race and gender, so implications for hourly earnings do not necessarily extend to overall earnings. We …
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market work--as requiring the most interaction with the native world, and these activities more than others fit the …
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-establishment cells. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to examine segregation by race and ethnicity at the level of …
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We study the relationship between Hispanic employment and location-specific measures of the distribution of jobs. We find that it is only the local density of jobs held by Hispanics that matters for Hispanic employment, that measures of local job density defined for Hispanic poor English...
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Given that changes in the availability of men in the marriage market should affect marriage decisions, we use incarceration rates for men as an instrumental variable for family structure in estimating the effect of never-married motherhood on the likelihood that children drop out of high school,...
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and pitcher match race/ethnicity. This effect only exists where there is little scrutiny of umpires' behavior -- in … determine the outcome of the at-bat. If a pitcher shares the home-plate umpire's race/ethnicity, he gives up fewer runs per game …
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We contrast the spatial mismatch hypothesis with what we term the racial mismatch hypothesis - that the problem is not a lack of jobs, per se, where blacks live, but a lack of jobs where blacks live into which blacks are hired. We first report new evidence on the spatial mismatch hypothesis,...
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with other skilled workers than with unskilled workers--and by race and ethnicity, using simulation methods to measure … education- and language-related skill differentials in generating workplace segregation by race and ethnicity, as skill is often … correlated with race and ethnicity. Finally, we attempt to distinguish between segregation by skill based on general crowding of …
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